Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes. Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant,... more...

To help customers reduce the growing cost of managing employee computers both in the office and on the road, Novell created Novell® ZENworks® for Desktops 4. ZENworks stands for Zero Effort Networks. Built to operate over the Internet as well as internal networks, ZENworks for Desktops 4 automates key network management tasks so IT professionals... more...

This e-book focuses on obesity from a number of perspectives and features international articles from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Brazil. Obesity is considered by the World Health Organization to constitute a worldwide epidemic. The release of this e-book coincides with the National Obesity Forum conference held in London, October 2005. more...

Each summer, circulation staff in my library inventories a section of the stacks and
brings collection issues to the attention of appropriate bibliographers. Since I am
responsible for the economics collection, I see an array of government documents that
have managed to elude the cataloging process. Many of these titles are decades old,
having... more...

User Interface Design for Mere Mortals takes the mystery out of designing effective interfaces for both desktop and web applications. It is recommended reading for anyone who wants to provide users of their software with interfaces that are intuitive and easy-to-use. The key to any successful application lies in providing an interface users... more...

The Qt toolkit is widely used for the development of GUI applications as well as console tools and servers. Qt is most notably used in KDE (a free Linux desktop) the Opera web browser, Skype, and Google Earth.In The Book of Qt 4, Daniel Molkentin, a core developer of KDE, uses practical examples to explain Qt characteristics like the signal slot concept... more...

Where multimodal signal processing meets multimodal human computer interaction...Signal Processing (SP) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), two very popular scientific areas, are brought together to provide solutions to a series of great challenges in the field of multimodal interfaces. Focus is on multimodal interfaces that respond efficiently to... more...

"This book is the best way for beginning developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using it." ?Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software and the Open Source Applications Foundation Build advanced cross-platform applications that support native look-and-feel... more...

Design and create functional applications that interact with remote data sources. You get a thorough introduction to the latest Flash Builder tools learning how you can use the built-in wizards, MXML or pure ActionScript 3 to build information-rich applications for the browser or AIR applications. Hand?s on tutorials guide you through each iteration... more...

For generations, humans have fantasized about the ability to create devices that can see into a person's mind and thoughts, or to communicate and interact with machines through thought alone. Such ideas have long captured the imagination of humankind in the form of ancient myths and modern science fiction stories. Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience... more...